Country Goes Urban at CMA Awards

BMI's biggest country songwriters and artists led the list of winners at the 39th annual Country Music Association Awards held November 15 in New York City, marking the first time "country music's biggest night" has been held outside of its traditional home in Nashville.

Keith Urban

Byron Gallimore

Brooks & Dunn

Aussie star Keith Urban and producer Byron Gallimore were both double winners, adding to BMI's impressive 61% take of the evening's awards.

In addition to his second consecutive Male Vocalist of the Year win, Urban was crowned Entertainer of the Year for the first time, making him the only artist in CMA Awards history to win the Horizon, Entertainer and Male Vocalist of the Year awards (he won the Horizon Award in 2001).

Rascal Flatts

Jerry Douglas

Gallimore earned an Album of the Year nod as producer on Lee Ann Womack's There's More Where That Came From and Single of the Year for her hit "I May Hate Myself in the Morning."

Show hosts Brooks & Dunn picked up their 13th Vocal Duo of the Year award, while Rascal Flatts was named Vocal Group of the Year for the third year in a row.

Toby Keith

Glenn Campbell

Other BMI winners included country superstar Toby Keith, whose "As Good As I Once Was" earned Video of the Year, dobro master and Union Station band member Jerry Douglas, who took home the award for Musician of the Year, and songwriters Bill Anderson and Jon Randall, who won Song of the Year for the Alison Krauss smash "Whiskey Lullaby."